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w. VANDENBURG, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

IRON ING-TABLE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 19,883, dated April 6, 1858.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLIAM VANDEN- BURG, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improved Ironing- Table for the Ironing of Shirts, Ladies Skirts and Dresses, and other Articles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this speciiication, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of the table, and Fig. 2 is a plan of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

This table consists of a board of suitable length and width for ironing shirts, ladies7 skirts, dresses or other articles upon, and a permanent stand to which one end of the said board is attached rigidly, and which has ahinged or otherwise movable support for its other end, which support is to be moved into a position to support the last mentioned end of the board during the process of ironing, and moved away therefrom to permit the article to be passed over it to place them on or remove them from the board.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A B C E, is the stationary portion of the stand, consisting of a standard A, of the required height to support the board, a shorter standard B, placed at a distance from A, to suit the length of the board, and a stay piece C, to connect the two standards rigidly together and sustain them in an upright position.

D, is the board, which is made of a suitable form for ironing shirts, viz. parallel or nearly s0 for the greater portion of its length, but suiiiciently narrower at one end to receive the collar of a shirt in the manner shown in Fig. 2, where a shirt is shown upon it in blue color. The broader end 6, of the board is attached rigidly to the standard A, and stayed thereto by a bracket piece E, and the narrower end c, stands over the standard B.

F, is a movable piece hinged at a, to the top of the standard B, and of a suitable height to make the said standard equal in height to the standard A, when it is brought to the upright position shown in black outline in Fig. 1, so that it may-when in that position-support the end 0 of the board against the pressure employed in ironing.

The movable piece F has a recess d, at the top to receive the end c of the board, which its snugly therein and thus prevents any lateral movement of the board during the ironing process. The'lower and side edges of the end c, of the board, and the bottom and side edges of the recess d, should be slightly beveled so that there may be no obstruction to the entrance of the said end c, into the recess when the movable piece F is brought to an upright position. The movable piece F may have a spring latch bolt applied to secure it to the board when it is brought up to it.

The operation of the board is as follows: When a shirt, skirt, dress, or other article which is double has to be put en the board, the movable piece F, ismoved down to the position shown in Figs. l and 2, in red outline, where it offers no obstruction to the passage of the article over the end c, of the board; and after the article has been passed over the said end on to the board, the said piece is raised by handto the upright position shown in black outline in Fig. l, to support the said end, and allowed to remain so till the article has been ironed and it is desired to remove it from the board, when it is moved away again to the position shown in red outline to allow the article to be drawn off and another to be put on.

This table possesses the advantage over the ironing table with the hinged board, for which Letters-Patent have been granted t0 myself and J ames Harvey, of being more simple and cheaper in its construction and less liable to get out of order, and being more easily managed.

The movable piece F may be arranged and attached to the standard B in various ways; but I have represented the arrangement and mode of attachment which I at present consider to be the simplest and best.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:-

The ironing table composed of a board rigidly attached at one end to a stand which is provided with a movable support for the other end of the board to operate in the manner and for the purpose herein specified.

' WILLIAM VANDENBURG.

Witnesses:

W. TUscH, W. HAUFF. 

